Natabari Assembly constituency

This article is about the assembly constituency in West Bengal. For 2. its namesake village, see Natabari, Cooch Behar.

Natabari
Constituency No. 8 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Natabari Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Cooch Behar
LS constituency	Cooch Behar
Established	1977
Total electors	245,040
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Mihir Goswami
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2021

Natabari Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Cooch Behar district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 8 Natabari Assembly constituency covers Deoanhat, Dauaguri, Guriahati I, Guriahati II, Jiranpur and Panisala gram panchayats of Cooch Behar I community development block and Andaran Fulbari II, Balarampur I, Balarampur II, Chilkhana I, Chilkhana II, Deocharai, Dhalpal II, Maruganj, Natabari I, Natabari II gram panchayats of Tufanganj I community development block. ^[1]

Natabari Assembly constituency is part of No. 1 Cooch Behar (Lok Sabha constituency) (SC). ^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
1977	Sibendra Narayan Chowdhury		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1982
1987
1991
1996
2001	Tamser Ali
2006
2011	Rabindra Nath Ghosh		All India Trinamool Congress
2016
2021	Mihir Goswami		Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2021

West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, 2021: Natabari ^{[2] [3]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Mihir Goswami	111,743	51.45	40.67
	AITC	Rabindra Nath Ghosh	88,303	40.66	6.06
	CPI(M)	Akik Hasan	11,839	5.45	33.18
Majority			23,440	10.79	2.7
Turnout			2,17,173	88.63	0.58
	BJP gain from AITC		Swing

2011

In the 2011 election, Rabindra Nath Ghosh of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Tamser Ali of CPI(M).

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Natabari constituency ^{[4] [5]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Rabindra Nath Ghosh	81,951	47.56	+1.80
	CPI(M)	Tamser Ali	74,386	43.17	−5.67
	BJP	Utpal Kanti Deb	9,923	5.76
	Independent	Siddikuddin Bepari	2,972
	RPI	Girindra Nath Barman	1,867
	Independent	Prodyut Kumar Dey	1,197
Turnout			172,296	89.17
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing	+7.47

1972-2006

Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In the 2006 ^[6] and 2001 ^[7] state assembly elections, Tamser Ali of CPI(M) defeated Rabindra Nath Ghosh of Trinamool Congress. Sibendra Narayan Chowdhury of CPI(M) defeated Rabindranath Ghosh representing Congress in 1996, ^[8] Biimbal Chandra Dhar of Congress in 1991, ^[9] Santosh Kumar Roy of Congress in 1987, ^[10] 1982 ^[11] and 1977. ^{[12] [13]} Prior to that the constituency did not exist.

References

1. "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission. Retrieved 20 June 2014.
2. "General Elections, India, 2021, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
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4. "General Elections, India, 2011, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
5. "West Bengal Assembly Election 2011". Natabari. Empowering India. Archived from the original on 27 May 2013. Retrieved 20 April 2011.
6. "General Elections, India, 2006, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
7. "General Elections, India, 2001, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
8. "General Elections, India, 1996, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
9. "General Elections, India, 1991, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
10. "General Elections, India, 1987, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
11. "General Elections, India, 1982, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
12. "General Elections, India, 1977, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
13. "8 - Natabari Assembly Constituency". Partywise Comparison Since 1977. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 29 August 2009.